Tag: Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • This pioneering examination of an important symbol in popular literature of the last century opens up a previously unexplored repository of attitudes toward American civilization. An important book for all those concerned with the course of American culture and literature.

  • Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners, the household traumas of mixed-race slaves, post-Emancipation calls for reparations, and the economic fallout from anti-miscegenation marriage laws.

  • Blood relations: The cultural work of miscegenation in nineteenth-century American literature University of Pennsylvania 1999, 282 pages Publication Number: AAT 9937719 ISBN: 9780599389762 Leigh Holladay Edwards, Associate Professor of English Florida State University A DISSERTATION in English Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree…